Leg 310, Quincy, Illinois via Missouri and Kentucky to Chapmansboro, Tennessee, USA
DAY06_27.PLN (9.2 KB)
A lot of wind today, more rain as well, but visibility wasn’t too bad. 5 more PG areas today, smaller ones, 8.5 GiB of data streamed on this leg.
06-27 Mt Sterling Mun I63 7:05 AM
06-27 Greater Beardstown K06 7:12 AM
06-27 Abraham Lincoln Capital KSPI 7:27 AM Springfield PG Area 39°48’3"N 89°38’56"W
06-27 Bock Farms 3LS7 7:43 AM
06-27 Roy Burden Rla 2LL3 7:49 AM Unclear runway
06-27 Hooterville 7IS3 7:55 AM
06-27 John Scharff 33IL 8:00 AM
06-27 Niklaus Rla IS26 8:07 AM
06-27 Oink Acres 17LL 8:11 AM Champaign PG Area 40°6’3"N 88°14’8"W
06-27 Mayhall 5LL3 8:42 AM 26 knot headwind
06-27 Mattoon Airport KNAR 8:55 AM
06-27 Vandalia Mun KVLA 9:16 AM
06-27 Silver Creek 3IL1 9:28 AM
06-27 St Louis Rgnl KALN 9:36 AM
06-27 Lambert-St Louis Intl KSTL 9:45 AM St Louis PG Area 38°37’33"N 90°11’24"W
06-27 St Louis Downtown KCPS 10:16 AM
06-27 Lindauer 83LL 10:26 AM
06-27 Sparta Community-Hunter KSAR 10:31 AM
06-27 Southern Illinois KMDH 10:47 AM Carbondale PG Area
06-27 Veterans Airport of Southern I KMWA 10:59 AM Marion PG Area
06-27 Vienna KVIN 11:13 AM
06-27 Kentucky Dam State Park M34 11:25 AM
06-27 Lake Barkley State Park 1M9 11:44 AM
06-27 Sabre Aaf (Ft Campbell) KEOD 11:55 AM
06-27 Whifferdill TN77 12:08 PM
Flight time 5:03 24 stops
Starting at Mt Sterling, the weather and light look almost identical to yesterday, except it’s morning now
Mt Sterling Township
La Moine River joining the Illinois River
Greater Beardstown Airport-K06 in Cass County, Illinois
Virginia Township
Ashland
Pleasant Plains
Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield, Illinois
Abraham Lincoln lived in Springfield from 1844 to 1861 before becoming the 16th president
Springfield, the capitol of Illinois, lit by lightning
Illinois State Capitol Building
Pinnacle Club Lounge at the top floor of 700E Adams St
Old State Capitol and Union Square Park further back
Union Station (rail museum) at Union Square Park
The Alamo (bar), nice mural
Leaving Springfield via Pillsbury district
Hooterville Airport-7IS3 at Hallsville
Clinton Lake, IL. I found a Clinton Lake before in Kansas
Clinton Lake State Recreation Area
Arriving in Champaign at Kraft Foods
Champaign Campus Town
Boney Creek running through Midtown parks
University of Illinois Armory (stadium) with military recruiting offices, scholarships and enrollment
Zuppke Field at Memorial Stadium and State Farm Center behind
Robert Zuppk was the University of Illinois head football coach from 1913 to 1941
Detention Basin (reservoir) at Healey St, looks like Champaign can use some rain
Orpheum Children’s Science Museum in a former vaudeville theater
Crystal Lake Park Family Aquatic Center and the Champaign County Fair
Continuing on over Bowdre Township
Richland Township, Lake Shelbyville in the distance
Dry Point Township
Vandalia Lake
Landing at Vandalia Municipal Airport
Wood River (town) along the Mississippi River in Madison County
Edward Ted and Pat Jones-Confluence Point State Park
Where the Missouri River joins the Mississippi River
Landing at Lambert-St Louis International Airport
St Louis, Missouri at Grand Blvd and Sullivan Ave
The Dome at America’s Center, home stadium of the St. Louis Rams
The Gateway Arch, 1965 630-foot tall monument representing a door to the western part of the country
Old Courthouse where former slave Dred Scott (1799-1858) sued for freedom (unsuccessfully)
A landmark decision in 1857 of the US Supreme Court in which the Court held that the US Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free, The decision inflamed the national debate over slavery and deepened the divide that ultimately led to the Civil War in 1865.
Following the ruling, the Chaffees deeded the Scott family to Taylor Blow, who manumitted them on May 26, 1857. Scott worked as a porter in a St. Louis hotel, but his freedom was short-lived; he died from tuberculosis, but at least his wife and two daughters lived on in freedom.
Busch Stadium, red-brick ballpark, home of the St. Louis Cardinals
Enterprise Center, hosting ice hokey and other sports and Stifel Theatre (opera house)
St Louis Aquarium at Union Station
1004 Pine St
Alton & Southern Railway Co on the way to the airport
Landing at St Louis Downtown Airport with Gateway Grizzlies baseball club on my right
World Shooting and Recreational Complex at Shotgun Lake
I had no clue what this was from the air, it’s nearly 5km long!
Sparta Community-Hunter Airport
Ora Township
Carbondale in Jackson County, Illinois
Home to Southern Illinois University
Which in turn is home to Saluki Stadium and Banterra Center next to Campus Lake
Evergreen Park at Carbondale Reservoir
Marion, county seat of Williamson County. Here at W Deyoung St and Civic Cir Blvd (mall)
Downtown, only 17,000 people here
A dispersed urban area that developed out of the early 20th-century coal fields
Williamson County Fairgrounds
Vienna Airport, Pope County, Illinois
Actually much closer to Glendale, 18km from Vienna
Bay City on the Ohio River, the border with Kentucky
Kentucky Dam State Park Airport
Kentucky Dam, holding back the Tennessee River and Kentucky Lake
Next to it, Barkley Dam, holding back the Cumberland River and Lake Barkley
Lake Barkley at the smaller Energy Lake
Winn Materials at Clarksville, Tennessee on the Cumberland River
Final stop today in Cheatham County
At Whifferdill Airport-TN77
Next to Dyson Ditch Wildlife Refuge
Looks like a nice place to stay overnight. Tomorrow on to Nashville.